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Dean Melanie Leslie’S Office Hours, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law Nov 2023

Dean Melanie Leslie’S Office Hours, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

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Join Dean Leslie and meet two Cardozo professors on the frontline of global human rights initiatives, Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum


Book Talk: Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr) Oct 2023

Book Talk: Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law, Cardozo Law Institute In Holocaust And Human Rights (Clihhr)

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Join Professor Jessica Roth and Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum for a conversation with Eric L. Muller, author of the newly released book Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps.


Queer Liberation Under International Law, Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights And Social Justice, Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review, Cardozo Outlaw Mar 2023

Queer Liberation Under International Law, Cardozo Journal Of Equal Rights And Social Justice, Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review, Cardozo Outlaw

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This symposium will equip attendees with an understanding of how global movements, including activists, lawyers, scholars and organizations, navigate and employ international law in pursuit of queer liberation.

Adopting an intersectional feminist framework, this symposium is an acclamation for queer justice everywhere. Introduced by Dean Melanie Leslie, this symposium will explore how international law may subjugate or protect queer populations, how domestic efforts interact with international law and how constitutional laws and international law must evolve for exhaustive social justice.


Making A Career Working For Lgbtq+ Rights: An Alumni Panel, Cardozo Dean's Office, Cardozo Outlaw Feb 2023

Making A Career Working For Lgbtq+ Rights: An Alumni Panel, Cardozo Dean's Office, Cardozo Outlaw

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Dean Melanie Leslie ’91 will moderate a panel of distinguished alumni who will speak about their experiences working to advance LGBTQ+ rights in the legal world. They will discuss cases and projects they have worked on, how recent high-profile legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community has impacted their work and provide advice for law students who want to enter the field.

Panelists:

  • Taylor Brown ’17 is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.
  • Jason Starr ’10 has over 15 years of experience as an attorney, educator and strategist in the fight for human rights.
  • Debra Guston ’88 is …


The Supreme Court In Crisis, David M. Hunt Library Feb 2023

The Supreme Court In Crisis, David M. Hunt Library

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The speakers will discuss recent decisions affecting abortion and gun rights, the public’s trust and confidence in the high court and cases the Court will decide before the summer involving LGBTQ rights, affirmative action, election law and immigration policy.

Speakers:

  • Tom Gerety, former President of Amherst and Trinity Colleges, former Executive Director of the Brennan Center for Justice
  • Adam Liptak, New York Times Supreme Court Correspondent
  • David Rudenstine, Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law at Cardozo and former Dean